The Amish Cook:

9:17 AM,
Dec. 24, 2013

Written by

Elizabeth Coblentz
Oasis Newsfeatures

Editor's note: Due to slow mail delivery, Lovina Eicher's column did not arrive in time for publication this week. But since this is a season of reflection and renewal, I thought this would be a good time to go back into the archives and re-run two Amish Cook holiday columns from years past. The first column is from 1991, the second 1993. Wow, how life has changed since then!

Personally, this period represented one of the happiest periods of my life. When you're in your early 20s is there really much not to be happy about? And Old Order Amish culture was in the twilight of its agrarian isolation. Amish ...